Tag Archives: Holocaust

Jesuit Kaddish

Posted on May 6, 2020 by Bookworm

Kraft Family Professor of Philosophy James Bernauer, S.J., takes a critical look at the Jesuit order in his new book Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance (Notre Dame Press, 2020). According to the publisher, Jesuit Kaddish “is a long … Continue reading →

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John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Bookworm

Alon Confino, Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies and professor of history and Jewish Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will deliver the annual John Paul II Lecture in Christian-Jewish Relations on Feb. 9 at 4 p.m. in … Continue reading →

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Filming the End of the Holocaust

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Bookworm

In his new book, Filming the End of the Holocaust: Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Bloomsbury, 2014), Professor of Fine Arts John Michalczyk tells the story of how the US Government commissioned filmmakers to document the … Continue reading →

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Jews & Jesuits

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Bookworm

The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College will host a celebration of the publication of “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters Between Jews and Jesuits (Brill Academic Publishing), co-edited by James Bernauer, S.J., Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish … Continue reading →

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New book: Bearing witness to the Shoah

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Bookworm

In his new book, I SAW IT: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah, Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer explores how Jewish-Russian poets became the earliest literary witnesses to … Continue reading →

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Holocaust history and survivor testimonies

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Bookworm

Cultural critic and historian Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution of Poland, has served as an expert witness in two “Holocaust denial” cases: the second Zündel trial in Toronto in 1988 … Continue reading →

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